International Horticultural Exposition 2019, Beijing, China (hereafter referred to as Beijing Expo 2019), with its host location in Yanqing county, is a professional exposition of the highest level (A1 category) sponsored by Beijing municipal government and organized by Chinese government, with the approval of the International Association of Horticultural Producers(AIPH/IAHP) and the permission of Bureau of International Expositions(BIE). Beijing Expo 2019 is expected to welcome more than 100 official exhibitors (including countries and international organizations), more than 100 other exhibitors (domestic provinces, cities and enterprises in China and abroad) and more than 16 million visitors.

Beijing Expo 2019, themed "Live Green, Live Better" and with its concept of "Integrate the Nature into Gardening, Touch the Soul with the Nature (让园艺融入自然，让自然感动心灵), "targets on "A New Level of World Horticulture and a New Model of Ecological Civilization(世界园艺新境界，生态文明新典范)."

Beijing World Horticultural Expo Coordination Bureau now officially asks the public for emblem design bidding for the International Horticultural Exposition 2019, Beijing, China (hereafter referred to as the emblem) and openly invites the individuals, legal persons and other organizations who are interested in submitting their bidding works.

1. Project Overview

Project Name：The Emblem Collection for the International Horticultural Exposition 2019,Beijing,China

(4) The design shall be easy to promote, produce and convert in various carriers and thus appropriate for the application system design and production as well as market development.

(5) The bidding work shall include core graphics, standard font and color system.

(6) If the official name of this expo is applied in the design bidding work, the official full name "International Horticultural Exposition2019, Beijing, China"or"Beijing Expo 2019" shall be used.

3. Awards

The awards for the emblem collection are as below:

First Prize (1): Certificate of award and RMB 40,000;

Second Prize (2): Certificate of award and RMB 10,000 for each;

Third Prize (3): Certificate of award and RMB 5,000 for each;

Short-listed Prize (15): Certificate of award and RMB 1,000 for each;

Memorial Prize (100): Certificate of award;

Organizing Prize (10): Certificate of award.

4．Registration

For those who are interested in the emblem collection eventand submittingbidding works, please download the emblem collection documents at our official website: http://www.horti-expo2019.com and fill in the registration form online from 9:00 April 27th to 16:00 May 31st, 2015.

5．Bidding Work Requirements:

5.1 Paper documents

（1）Bidding work：The size of the bidding work shall be in A4 landscape orientation with 2cm marginon top for serial number and 4cm margin on bottom for the topic and caption within 200 characters. The center space shall be the bidding work design and other sketches. Each bidding work shall be on separate paper and shall not be mounted.

（2）Intellectual property statement

5.2 Electronic document

The participant shall also provide the electronic document of the bidding work. The electronic document carrier could be CD or other removable storage medium. The bidding work shall be in 300 dpi.

6. Submission

6.1 Submission time: from the date of the announcement till 16:00 May 31st, 2015.

6.2 Submission ways

The submission shall be in either personal submission or by postal submission. The organizer will not accept any other submission ways except the above mentioned.

Personal submission time: 9:00-11:30，13:30-16:00 every working day before May 22nd, 2015; 9:00-11:30，13:30-16:00 daily from May 23rd till May 31st.

The bidding work shall be sealed with a seal envelope marked clearly "Emblem Collection for Beijing Expo 2019."The participant'sname, address and contact information shall also be clearly stated.

6.5 The deadline for the submission is by 16:00 May 31st, 2015. Any bidding works that fail to submit by this time shall not be accepted by the organizer.

7. Others

7.1 Intellectual property

（1）The submitted bidding works will not be returned to the participant.

（2）The intellectual property for the first prize, second prize, third prize and short-listed prize belong to the organizer. The organizer reserves all the rights to use, develop, revise, authorize, permit and protect the above awarded bidding works in any ways. Meanwhile, the organizer has the right to reproduce or recreate the above awarded bidding works, while the participant has no right to share any rights and interests brought by such behaviors.

（3）The participant shall guarantee the originality of the bidding work. The bidding work itself and its main material do not and will not infringe upon others' intellectual property or proprietary technology or commercial secrets. If the bidding work uses or contains others' intellectual property or proprietary technology or commercial secrets, the participant shall guarantee that he/she has been authorized legally, effectively and sufficiently. Any legal liabilities caused by intellectual property or proprietary technology or commercial secrets infringement shall be undertaken by the participant.

7.2 Beijing Fangyuan Notary Public Office will be responsible for the notarization of the collection.

7.3 Beijing World Horticultural Expo Coordination Bureau reserves the final interpretation rights for the collection event and the relevant documents.